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Gabi KhumaloWestern Cape

The Khanya Project, a undertaking of the Western Cape Department of Education, is to put in software system to track the thieves who steal computing machines and computing machine parts from schools in the province.

ICT Execution Coordinator at Khanya, André Pietersen said despite strong security, thieves mark between 10 percentage and 12 percentage of school's computing machine laboratories.

"The thieves are not always successful, however, some make acquire past assorted security systems to steal valuable computing machine equipment used by schools to back up instruction and learning," Mister Pietersen said.

Khanya is aimed at enhancing instruction and learning using information and communication theory engineerings (ICT).

Explaining how the software system works, Mister Pietersen said information is fed to a centralised database and given to the police force and second-hand shops. They in bend can then utilize it to check up on whether any computing machine or parts of computing machines were previously stolen.

Mr Pietersen said it was of import to enter consecutive Numbers of both the computing machines and its parts because thieves usually broke up computing machines in IT "chop shops" to sell the components.

"The system directs the information to the cardinal database automatically via the cyberspace and schools can also back up the information onto a flash disk," Mister Pietersen explained.

He encouraged schools to utilize both systems in lawsuit cyberspace connexions travel down at any point.

The software system automatically detects whether any parts have got got been added or taken out of any computing machine or the school network, so that those with the right watchword can keep and update the system.

He said that the system was already being used in the in the eastern territory where police force recently used the information to place stolen difficult drives.

The undertaking squad is in the procedure of rolling out the system to other instruction territories in the Western Cape.

Khanya have funded 21 295 computing machines on Khanya computing machine labs to date, while schools funded a additional 13 717.

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The undertaking not only takes to guarantee that scholars are computing machine literate person but to utilize ICT to back up instruction and learning.

It focuses on instructor preparation and support to guarantee that instructors cognize how to utilize ICT to heighten education.

Up to date, the undertaking back ups 21 119 instructors on how to utilize computing machines to heighten instruction and learning for the benefit of 711 416 learners.